Friends of the Earth (Melbourne)'s renewable energy campaign

RET Watch: Defend and extend renewables target

The Renewable Energy Target is the central plank of national renewable energy policy. The successful scheme is driving the transformation of Australia’s energy sector — creating jobs and investment across Australia while cutting the carbon emissions that cause global warming.

In a letter to the editor published by The South Gippsland Sentinel Times, Bernie McComb of Cowes thinks the Abbott government’s priorities are out of step with the need to decarbonise our energy system:

Hazelwood has developed nothing. How can we afford nothing for such huge cost to taxpayers? How much longer must we wait for Ministers to do what they were elected to do, protect environment and help growth industries?

When we need to go onwards and upwards, Tony takes us downwards and backwards, not listening, not learning. Defend and extend the RET.

Bernie McComb, Cowes.

If you want a renewable energy-powered future for Australia, here are a few simple actions you can take to support the Renewable Energy Target.

TAKE ACTION:

Sign our petition calling on Prime Minister Tony Abbott to keep his election promise and maintain the national Renewable Energy Target as it stands.

Help us get climate change and renewables on the agenda of the Australian Labor Party’s national conference. Add your name to our open letter to opposition leader Bill Shorten.